Fairy Walk
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Set off on a magical nature adventure—and let your imagination soar—on a forest walk with the creator of Jabari Jumps. Let’s go, let’s go! Hopping and skipping into the woods behind their house, a trio of kids and their loyal doggy companion head off into the wild world in search of fairies. Their explorations lead them across a babbling brook and through bushes and meadows of fragrant honey snowdrops and bee balm. But where are the fairies? They peer under heavy rocks and peek under fleecy carpets of moss, finding dragonlike salamanders and scampering creepy-crawlies, but no fairies. The adventurers don’t lose hope, though—if they look very closely and listen hard enough, there’s always magic to be found in the woods! Gaia Cornwall has crafted an enchanting story that celebrates flights of fancy, curiosity, and the wonder to be found in the natural world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Streamlining the goings-on with simple dialogue and action words, Cornwall (The Best Bed for Me) follows three children searching for fairies in the woods. "Let's go, let's go!/ Skip,/ skip,/ skip,/ trip!" they say while waving goodbye to two adults and venturing through a gate. It's a rainy, misty day, and opaque pastel, watercolor, and collage spreads depict a brown-skinned child in a pink rain poncho opening their arms wide: "Where are you, fairies?" A smaller, light-brown-skinned child in a floofy skirt gestures at a rock. After the trio tips it over, readers see an outstretched hand holding not the sought-after quarry but a small orange newt: "A dragon!" And though the tallest, a pale-skinned child in a yellow rain slicker, gestures for quiet, they find "no fairies at all!" The search does, however, turn up mushrooms, insects, and underground life ("Feel the ground! It hums. It thrums"). While the children never see them, readers are likely to spot small, blue, winged beings across the pages of this freewheeling group outing of a work about careful noticing. Ages 3–7.
